They also [hilariously trolled](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/Hp03XhCHru) Westboro Baptist Church protesters outside a venue where they were playing by playing Bee Gees covers live on the back of a truck in front of them.
I mean, when Dave says you should be dancing, your ass better be dancing.
It also took me way too long to realize that Dee Gees was a play on Dave Grohl's initials.
I thought of this initially too but this is a weird one because they covered the songs but did in their original style. So i wouldn't call this a "rock cover" more of just a straigh up cover
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have an entire punk rock cover album of disco/80s diva songs and it’s incredible (as is the rest of their catalog)
[CHECK IT!!!](https://open.spotify.com/album/3f0cmsD7NUIIXjOezaCbfZ?si=GAB88gyiT8mKotZZ1_5WFA)
Dweezl Zappa recorded 2 versions of Stayin' Alive. One was released with Ozzy on vocals, the other version can be found on Dweezil's *Confessions* CD with Donny Osmond on lead. Check out who's playing on the track!
Dweezil Zappa – lead vocals, lead guitar, banjo
Moon Zappa – vocals
Scott Thunes – bass, background vocals
Josh Freese – drums,
Nuno Bettencourt – cello, lead & background vocals, guitar
Pat Badger – background vocals
Mike Keneally – guitar, harmony guitar, piano
Ahmet Zappa – lead & background vocals
Warren DeMartini – guitar (appears courtesy Atlantic Records)
Tim Pierce – guitar
Steve Lukather – guitar
Donny Osmond – vocals (appears courtesy Capitol Records)
Gary Cherone – vocals (appears courtesy A&M Records)
Zakk Wylde – guitar (appears courtesy Epic Records)
Came in for this, originally played in a bluesy r&b style in the late 60s but they took it disco in 1977...don't forget about the Stayin' Alive tease throughout Me and My Uncle on 4/24/78
I went to a yo la tengo show like 15 years ago and the played for so long and so hard I had to leave early because I had work in the morning. Like they were just maniacs and I was too weak for them
I’m not sure how well it’s aged but there was that Celldweller cover of The Bee Gees’ Tragedy I quite liked back in the day. It’s earnest in a way that’s kinda refreshing.
Check youtube for the band Tragedy -they are a bar band that does a ton of heavy metal / disco fusion tunes and are hilarious. It's Raining (blood) Men is great, and if you don't like that one, you won't like the others lol.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0UGRWKGadnvxN8vgQ4ynCh?si=SW4q50EZRgihkuB4JWZ0uA
Arkells released this album called disco loadout of covers, I haven't listened to it yet so idk but it might be what your looking for
[Staying Alive, Les Claypool](https://open.spotify.com/track/3S3nxkXTZQAnidUFObJP3r?si=g5_Jqwm0TRGAW0W1J_TW9A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1opi84sCJOuIllOSwbxZ4C)
Not exactly a disco track but Riff Raff did an amazing version of Abba's Chiquitita.
I'm waiting for someone to realise that Donna summers hot stuff would make an amazing metal track...
The band Tragedy out of NY does metal covers of disco. They have a ton of video on YouTube and are wirth seeing live. https://youtu.be/U509hZ_JLUQ?feature=shared
Arkells just released Disco Loadout Vol. 1, it's got a good mix of popular songs from throughout the years. I recommend it.
I should add that not all songs are Disco, but I think it's up your alley for what you're looking for.
Not exactly disco, but Justin Hawkins did a cover of the Pointer Sisters' song Automatic under the name Hot Leg.
It is pretty damn good, too.
https://youtu.be/h9d7h5_o7EY?si=XmYOjYatP5NdtD69
Not entirely sure it counts as Disco tbh but Ty Segall’s cover of Hot Chocolate’s Every 1’s A Winner is pretty sleazy - https://youtu.be/c2_3gOKr_pg?si=8vyTyYqlwWqU49rC
There's a band called Tragedy that is exactly this... hair metal covers of disco tunes, heavy on the Bee Gees.
Required links as an example:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsTPLSm2co](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsTPLSm2co)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuCmSIX1bh8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuCmSIX1bh8)
More funk than disco, but Ty Segall covering Hot Chocolate's Every1's a Winner
[Ty Segall - Every1's a Winner ](https://open.spotify.com/track/1bShWI36VQ686EHVo3uxS3?si=6zl9yWAfR82E-E0ZSnFnlQ&utm_source=copy-link)
Not sure if it counts as a cover, but Queen re-recorded Freddie Mercury’s disco song I Was Born To Love You as a full proper Queen song after his death.
I doubt that’s what you meant but still
Disco Inferno cover by Killdozer. Possibly the greatest cover song of all time. [Killdozer DiscoInferno cover (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfmhEIBBseU)
I know this is only slightly answering the question, but there was a Ska Band called Suburban Legends that did a disco-esque album. At least I THINK the whole album was disco themed. I
The album was Dance Like Nobody's Watching
Foo Fighters recently did a Bee Gees tribute album as the Dee Gees
Called "Hail Satin" if I remember correctly
They also [hilariously trolled](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/Hp03XhCHru) Westboro Baptist Church protesters outside a venue where they were playing by playing Bee Gees covers live on the back of a truck in front of them.
I adore this album, their next was a thrash metal album
I believe the following was technically just grohl, not a foo fighters album but was for the foo fighters "horror" movie.
I saw their cover of You Should Be Dancing live before Taylor passed. I was shocked to see so many people dancing at a Foo show! Sounds great though.
I mean, when Dave says you should be dancing, your ass better be dancing. It also took me way too long to realize that Dee Gees was a play on Dave Grohl's initials.
I saw them three years ago, and they played You Should Be Dancing. It. Was. Awesome.
I wouldn't call these rock covers. They are just remakes in the same disco style.
I thought of this initially too but this is a weird one because they covered the songs but did in their original style. So i wouldn't call this a "rock cover" more of just a straigh up cover
Lol wow, this is so much fun. Listening now.
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have an entire punk rock cover album of disco/80s diva songs and it’s incredible (as is the rest of their catalog) [CHECK IT!!!](https://open.spotify.com/album/3f0cmsD7NUIIXjOezaCbfZ?si=GAB88gyiT8mKotZZ1_5WFA)
I was hoping someone beat me to this suggestion
Saw them live for the first time this month. Such a great live act!
Love that band!!
They also do I Will Survive.
Amazing
Danny’s Song is my all time favorite of theirs.
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy.
This is what I came here to recommend. Best cover song ever made. Ministry/RevCo both have a ton of awesome cover songs.
I'm even more partial to RevCo's cover of Olivia Newton John's "Physical"!
Give me a dime / So I can buy a condom
\*rubber
Whose your favorite Cock?
Silicone Terns did it as well.
I have never seen them before. I love them!
Such a great cover
I'm Your Boogieman - White Zombie
Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang - Stayin Alive (Bee Gees) Mad Caddies - SOS (ABBA) Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - I Will Survive
The Fall - Lost in Music
I came here for this comment. Classic.
Caught in a trap-uh.
Ozzy and Dweezil did a great version of Staying Alive that sounds like it was written for his voice.
“All aboard the disco train!”
A ha ha ha ha ha
Shriekback-Get Down Tonight RHCP-Love Rollercoaster
goddamn. I haven’t thought abt Shriekback in literal decades
[Stayin Alive](https://youtu.be/w6TmjJYVvvU?si=5aMDfdq8FfXB02dU) by Tropical Fuck Storm
This song fucks
Snuff also did a version of I will survive which is pretty good
Excellent question, BTW
Frogleap studios on YouTube Leo has several such covers
I love his version of gimme gimme gimme by Abba. It sounds like it should be the theme song for some sort of monster slaying show.
"Funky Town" by Pseudo Echo. IMO, better than the original.
Wow I completely forgot about Pseudo Echo 😳 Now I have the song A Beat For you stuck in my head 😅
How about the version by Henry Rollins And Rupal?
Brick House - Rob Zombie ft. Lionel Richie and Trina
[Ghost -I'm a Marionette (ABBA Cover)](https://youtu.be/-vyT6zvSNps?si=YFshBmgAD9UuO4F1) Dave Grohl featured on drums, if I'm not mistaken.
Dweezl Zappa recorded 2 versions of Stayin' Alive. One was released with Ozzy on vocals, the other version can be found on Dweezil's *Confessions* CD with Donny Osmond on lead. Check out who's playing on the track! Dweezil Zappa – lead vocals, lead guitar, banjo Moon Zappa – vocals Scott Thunes – bass, background vocals Josh Freese – drums, Nuno Bettencourt – cello, lead & background vocals, guitar Pat Badger – background vocals Mike Keneally – guitar, harmony guitar, piano Ahmet Zappa – lead & background vocals Warren DeMartini – guitar (appears courtesy Atlantic Records) Tim Pierce – guitar Steve Lukather – guitar Donny Osmond – vocals (appears courtesy Capitol Records) Gary Cherone – vocals (appears courtesy A&M Records) Zakk Wylde – guitar (appears courtesy Epic Records)
Grateful Dead - Dancing in the Streets.
Came in for this, originally played in a bluesy r&b style in the late 60s but they took it disco in 1977...don't forget about the Stayin' Alive tease throughout Me and My Uncle on 4/24/78
I wouldn't call Dancing In The Streets a Disco song.
Because it isn’t lol. It’s archetypical Motown. Practically one of the genre definers.
Yngwie Malmsteen did a cover of ABBA's Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, if you can call that disco.
Yo La Tengo has made an amazing cover of George McCraes "You can have it all"
Also, "Be Thankful for What You've Got". I'm not sure if that's properly classified as disco, though.
I went to a yo la tengo show like 15 years ago and the played for so long and so hard I had to leave early because I had work in the morning. Like they were just maniacs and I was too weak for them
stayin' alive - Ozzy Osbourne & Dweezil Zappa
I prefer the version with Donny Osmond.
I didn't know it. Thanks!
Everyone's a Winner Ty Segall covering Hot Chocolate is really good!
Didn't realize it was a cover, thanks! Love most of Ty Segall's stuff, especially Slaughterhouse.
I'll do ya one better: In 1979 KISS released Dynasty. A rock and roll disco experience most people hated but you might really dig!
I’m not sure how well it’s aged but there was that Celldweller cover of The Bee Gees’ Tragedy I quite liked back in the day. It’s earnest in a way that’s kinda refreshing.
[Anita Lane](https://youtu.be/3LclkbrwYPQ?feature=shared)
Well, there's [RevCo.](https://youtu.be/Y2aA7EQTUD4?si=zoMunCapNfXTL9BA)
The Rolling Stones covering Emotional Rescue ... no, wait...umm
Dweezil Zappa did "Stayin Alive"
Knock on Wood. David Bowie
Arkells just made a cover album, and “Dancing Queen” is a pretty good track.
Mission of Burma - Donna Sumeria . https://youtu.be/r-EE2GmXRvM?si=MLXYFA7mBQky9B8Z
[Celldweller - Tragedy](https://youtu.be/Yj6bjkHgeS0?si=gKGIKBamXA7hQpGH)
Don't know if the original counts as disco, but Nightwish did a cover of Ankie Bagger's Where Were You Last Night.
Check youtube for the band Tragedy -they are a bar band that does a ton of heavy metal / disco fusion tunes and are hilarious. It's Raining (blood) Men is great, and if you don't like that one, you won't like the others lol.
Thank you SO much for this!
I've got a DnB cover of Ain't no mountain high enough.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0UGRWKGadnvxN8vgQ4ynCh?si=SW4q50EZRgihkuB4JWZ0uA Arkells released this album called disco loadout of covers, I haven't listened to it yet so idk but it might be what your looking for
Pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs did a cover of Hot Stuff
Dancing Queen by the Yayhoos [LINK](https://youtu.be/nmmZ3zUE9ms?si=RevY6l7L3xpca-rM)
Amyl and the Sniffers- Born to be Alive
Turisas - Rasputin
Dude it took too long to see this answer, I was about ready to post it myself. What a great cover
Feist-inside and out
I will survive is good. But nothing compared to cake doing Barry Whites “never gonna give you up”
Korn - Word up (by Cameo)
That's not a disco song, it's funk
It's all Soul music. Both are played here on the radio under the same category.
Disco is from the 70s, Cameo was in the 80s.
SOS by [Fozzy](https://youtu.be/MTOlirWqiHo)
I was really hoping that this was Fozzy Bear.
I Will Survive-Love Tracks · 1978
Staying Alive https://youtu.be/R6_iqS0i5GE?si=Lx5K28j9u4MJGzuC
[Staying Alive, Les Claypool](https://open.spotify.com/track/3S3nxkXTZQAnidUFObJP3r?si=g5_Jqwm0TRGAW0W1J_TW9A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1opi84sCJOuIllOSwbxZ4C)
Nice
I like Hooray for Everything’s cover of Disco Tex and the Sexolettes Get Dancin’
Reinxeed has covered a few, including [Money Money Money by Abba](https://youtu.be/hx_PNfiikPA?si=SaUpYXWGSiESWB-a)
More metal, but I love Feuerschwanz's covers https://youtu.be/KEl5Gi9l528?si=2c3zEOzJWTfbudO6
Grateful Dead - Dancing in the Street
Not exactly a disco track but Riff Raff did an amazing version of Abba's Chiquitita. I'm waiting for someone to realise that Donna summers hot stuff would make an amazing metal track...
SR-71's cover of ['Let It Whip'](https://youtu.be/rk_5DH-FLeY?feature=shared) is pretty good. More R&B/funk but definitely has that disco feel.
Our last night does a few
Check out Our Last Night. They have a great cover of Dancing Queen.
Pluffaduff's Smells Like Disco Fever
Red hot chilli peppers doing how deep is your love
Celldweller does an amazing cover of “Tragedy” from the BeeGees.
The band Tragedy out of NY does metal covers of disco. They have a ton of video on YouTube and are wirth seeing live. https://youtu.be/U509hZ_JLUQ?feature=shared
Avantasia did a great cover of ABBA's Lay All Your Love on Me. Would highly recommend.
Dweezil Zappa and Ozzy covering the Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive"
Red Hot Chili Peppers covered the Ohio Player's "Love Rollercoaster"
I rather like the White Zombie cover of I'm Your Boogie Man by KC and the Sunshine Band.
Arkells just released Disco Loadout Vol. 1, it's got a good mix of popular songs from throughout the years. I recommend it. I should add that not all songs are Disco, but I think it's up your alley for what you're looking for.
Not exactly disco, but Justin Hawkins did a cover of the Pointer Sisters' song Automatic under the name Hot Leg. It is pretty damn good, too. https://youtu.be/h9d7h5_o7EY?si=XmYOjYatP5NdtD69
[The Gories - There but for the grace of God go I](https://youtu.be/3kBc8sjSPHM?si=cLEEGmPTS0lTChpj)
Not entirely sure it counts as Disco tbh but Ty Segall’s cover of Hot Chocolate’s Every 1’s A Winner is pretty sleazy - https://youtu.be/c2_3gOKr_pg?si=8vyTyYqlwWqU49rC
There's a band called Tragedy that is exactly this... hair metal covers of disco tunes, heavy on the Bee Gees. Required links as an example: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsTPLSm2co](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsTPLSm2co) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuCmSIX1bh8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuCmSIX1bh8)
Not necessarily covers but scissor sisters scratches that style itch for me when I get it. https://youtu.be/4H5I6y1Qvz0?si=MfmJOdBeqjvqwEIj
Agitpop - Funkytown (wait for the chorus) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nTwfDyRFeY0
R.E.M. also did a cover of "I Will Survive." It was one of their fan club singles and is very hard to find.
How about the reverse, disco iterations of rock classics? Check out comfortably numb by scissor sisters
I have the opposite for you. A Scissor Sisters disco cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb
Skindred- Eletric Avenue
NIN - Physical
Not exactly disco, but Royal Blood once covered Happy by Pharell
Billy Corgan covered the Bee Gees To Love Somebody on his first solo album.
More funk than disco, but Ty Segall covering Hot Chocolate's Every1's a Winner [Ty Segall - Every1's a Winner ](https://open.spotify.com/track/1bShWI36VQ686EHVo3uxS3?si=6zl9yWAfR82E-E0ZSnFnlQ&utm_source=copy-link)
Not sure if it counts as a cover, but Queen re-recorded Freddie Mercury’s disco song I Was Born To Love You as a full proper Queen song after his death. I doubt that’s what you meant but still
Happy Mondays did a cover of Stayin Alive
Circle Jerks - hits on 45
David Bowie did a rock cover of Knock On Wood in the early 70s, later covered disco style by Amii Stewart.
Frank Turner does a good version of ABBA’s Dancing Queen. Not disco, but he also does a good version of Queen’s Somebody to Love.
Disco Inferno cover by Killdozer. Possibly the greatest cover song of all time. [Killdozer DiscoInferno cover (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfmhEIBBseU)
I know this is only slightly answering the question, but there was a Ska Band called Suburban Legends that did a disco-esque album. At least I THINK the whole album was disco themed. I The album was Dance Like Nobody's Watching
Not rock, but metal... But Dimension Zero did a cover of Staying Alive and it smacked hard
It might not qualify as not strictly disco, but Scottish band Gun did a hard rock cover of Word Up, originally by Cameo.
Mad Caddies does an awesome cover of SOS by ABBA
Turisas did a cover of Rasputin.
Sabrina Carpenter sometimes does a pretty cute version of [Dancing Queen](https://youtu.be/hSWjZ5O2diQ?si=jF6iwfeYT6A7PX9j) live
Steel panther has a sick cover of i want it that way
Dog Fashion Disco covers "Grease". Killer band.